Edwin b



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN E. GLASKIN, OF LOWER QAPE, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA.

FIRE KINDLER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 252,757, dated January 24, 1882.

- Application filed June 10, 1881. (No specimens.) I

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN EAGLING GLAS- KIN, of Lower Cape, county of Albert-,Province of New Brunswick, Canada, have invented a new and Improved Fire Kiudler; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

My invention is an improvementiu the class of fire -kindling blocks containing sawdust, resin, and tallow, or some other oleaginous substance. Such blocks have had two prominent defects, which have greatlyimpaired their utility-that is to say, they have been either too soft, so as to soon lose their form and adhere together, or too brittle and friable, so that they would not retain their shape, but crumble into fragments. These results are due to lack of due proportion of theiugredients and of sufficient pressure when the blocks are being molded.

My invention remedies said defects and en: ables me to produce a greatly superior article, it being more firm and dense or compact, less sticky,and yet less friable; also,better adapt; ed for handling and transportation, as well as cheaper and capable of maintaining a flame for a longer time. v To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation. v

All moisture is first driven out of the sawdust by heat, and after this has been effected 1 mix therewith powdered resin, continuingto heat and stir until they are thoroughly incorporated. A small quantity of pitch or other coloring matter, it desired, is then added and stirred untilincorporation is complete. Finally some tallow, petroleum, still-bottoms, or other oleaginous substance is then added, the heating and stirringbeingcontinued uninterrupted in the meantime and thereafter until all the substances are interspersed among each other. I then form the compound, which is still in a granular condition, while hot, in molds, and

subject it therein 'to a pressure of about one thousand pounds per square inch.

By my invention I am enabled to produce a tough, solid,.homogeneons mass by the admixture of five parts sawdust, one resin, and onesixteentli of one of tallow or oleaginous substance, and a cake or mold measuring two inches by three inches by one-half inch will keep ablaze from fifteen to twenty minutes, and will kindle a green coal tire without the assistance of wood. Such results have never before been'attained, so far as I am aware.

By the means which I employ and above referred to I also make torches and other articles which will support a hot or bright flame tor a prolonged period.

I sometimes insert a small block of wood or other combustible substance in the center of each mold or cake for the purpose of spending the other substances.

What 'I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The process of producing tire-kindling blocks, which consists in mixing dry sawdust with resin and oil, in the proportions, respectively, of five parts,one part, and one-sixteenth of one part, and then placing the mass in suitable molds and compressing it to the degree of onethousand pounds, or thereabout, to the square inch for the purpose of compacting it into hard non-friable blocks, as set forth.

2. As an improved-article of manufacture, a tire=kindling block composed of live parts sawdust, one part resin, and one-sixteenth part oil mixed together and densely compacted, so that the block is hard and non-friable,

as specified.

Lower Cape, Hopewell, Albert county, New Brunswick, Canada.

EDWIN EAGLING GLASKIN. In presence of- S. G. MORSE, REB. G. PEoK. 

